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Melvin Carvalho
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Mathematician and Web Developer
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melvincarvalho 7 months ago
Great presentation by Maxim at Honey Badger conference. Great to see the first 1000 smart contracts issued on bitcoin, and the first 200,000 users. Yes, it's mainly testnet, for now. But surely a bright future ahead for programmable bitcoin. image
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melvincarvalho 7 months ago
Definition: Agentic Web The Agentic Web is a distributed, interactive internet ecosystem in which autonomous software agents, often powered by large language models, act as autonomous intermediaries that persistently plan, coordinate, and execute goal-directed tasks. In this paradigm, web resources and services are agent-accessible, enabling continuous agent-to-agent interaction, dynamic information exchange, and value creation alongside traditional human-web interactions. View quoted note →
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melvincarvalho 7 months ago
Good news! After a helpful discussion with the W3C Credentials Community Group, we’ve aligned on a verification method that works cleanly with did:nostr and the Verifiable Credentials stack: w3c-ccg/community#254 (comment) I’ve already patched the did:nostr draft to reflect this. What this unlocks 1. Production-ready reference implementations 2. Compatibility with the wider W3C Credentials ecosystem 3. A straightforward path to issuing industry-standard credentials (badges, awards, driver’s licences, etc.) over Nostr 4. The ability to sign and exchange JSON payloads between Nostr services (relays optional) It’s a nice step up in standards alignment and Nostr functionality. Many thanks to everyone who weighed in, feedback very welcome! image
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melvincarvalho 7 months ago
Been having a lot of fun exploring smart contracts over Bitcoin. They only launched last week, and wallets are already popping up. One wallet’s chat room has 40,000 people in it, and that’s just one wallet! All this without needing a Bitcoin fork. Feels like we might be at the start of something big. image
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melvincarvalho 8 months ago
LFG -- Satoshi's brillieant invention created a fair store of value, and medium of exchange. A fair commerce layer, built on bitcoin, starting with RGB, is the perhaps an even bigger technical feat. Fix the market, fix the world. "The official release of RGB v0.11.1 is now live on Bitcoin mainnet, unlocking a new chapter in Bitcoin’s evolution: tokenized assets and programmable contracts, all without leaving the Bitcoin ecosystem." image
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melvincarvalho 8 months ago
A fairly decent summary. I would add one thing. A nostr client could upgrade its censorship resistance with a relatively easy #pubky integration. The two protocols are complementary. image
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melvincarvalho 8 months ago
Realtime options market, powered by nostr. If you know, you know ;) image
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melvincarvalho 8 months ago
Picture a relay-race baton hurtling around a track. Before each hand-off the runner stamps the baton with today’s secret code, then sprints ahead. Every swap is signed, time-stamped, and etched into Bitcoin forever—so anyone can replay the entire race and verify there was never a duplicate baton. That baton is a Blocktrail. It gives you contract-grade state changes, provable settlement, and full auditability—powered solely by Bitcoin, no new chain or side token in sight. image
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melvincarvalho 9 months ago
Decentralized agents are here. They are just unevenly distributed. For now ... 🥳 image
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melvincarvalho 9 months ago
In this case google is correct. The site njump me does indeed contain malware. It sends your IP address to the bad guys, without consent. I have been making this point for a while. Glad that google have noticed. Stay safe! View quoted note →